Hi Bill

My father's home is of hip roof construction, with most of the
guttering being around 14 to 18 feet from the ground. After
insulating the downspouts from the continuous guttering and installing
aluminum strapping between the seamless sections at the corners we had
a wonderfully working loop skywire.
Because of it's close proximity to the ground it should not have
worked as well as it did. But in more cases than not, it outperformed
a wire loop skywire up 30 feet at my home.
The bandwidth at each tuned point was also much wider on the gutters
than on a wire.
Although dad's house was technically in hole, it sat on a tall mound
within that hole, so that roughly 20 feet away from the house itself,
the height of the gutters would have been closer to 25 feet.

TTUL
Gary